Appearing before the joint sitting of the National Assembly Health Committee and Social Welfare that was also attended by officials of the Kenya Medical Practitioners, Pharmacy and Dentist Union, former permanent secretary Mark Bor disowned the contentious CBA.

Br, the current Chairman of the Board of Management at Kenyatta National Hospital, claimed that he did sign a document akin to the CBA, but it was not the one doctors have been striking over.

“During the time of the Ministry of Public Health and Sanitation, a document was made to be a template for finalization of a document that will be signed by the Ministry of Health, so we are only owning what we had negotiated and what had been agreed on up to that point,” said Bor.

According to KTN News, Bor said the alleged template was a work in progress that did not talk of any money, and it was not meant to be registered before another document was agreed on and signed by the ministry.

It also emerged that he signed the alleged template illegally as he was not the PS at the time considering his services had already been terminated.

When questioned about who gave him the authority to sign the contentious 2013 CBA, he failed to give a straight forward answer or say if the former Health cabinet secretary James Macharia and his replacement PS Professor Sigor knew he had signed that document.

Bor claimed that he signed the document at a time when the government had not constituted the offices of the CS and PS, when in fact, these offices had already been constituted and had officers.

“That document was transitional and provisional,” insisted Bor.

The Committee also demanded to know if the CBA is a forgery considering doctors on strike said they will not hold any discussions outside the CBA. Bor had no answer for them.

President Uhuru Kenyatta met with officials from the doctors’ union, offered them a KSh 4 billion deal -40%- yo return to work but the doctors rejected it, demanding 300% that was agreed on in the CBA..

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